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  • So you have a single mobile device connecting via wg, correct? Not a second network?

    If so the only configuration you should need on the router are firewall rules to allow forwarding from wg to lan. I am guessing that’s what the second step in the GL-iNet help accomplishes. That’s what I would recommend trying.

    If I was doing this on “normal” OpenWRT I would create a firewall zone wg, and allow traffic to/from it and lan.

    On the client device you should be good to go without changes if AllowedIPs is set to 0.0.0.0/, ::/0 (sending all traffic through wg).





  • I have done a lot of travel photography. With my partner we each carry one body and 2-3 lenses on a typical trip. I much prefer pouches or a padded insert inside a conventional bag. You get a lot of flexibility and unobtrusiveness with this setup. And the downsides of more fiddly lens changes and slightly less protection are worth it to us.

    Tamrac Goblin pouches weigh almost nothing and give a bit of padding. That’s what we keep our gear in, while carrying a quality backpack or shoulder bag. I also tend to travel with a small soft cooler bag. We use that for picnics and keeping food fresh between accommodations, but it also works great for extra padding for long travel legs.

    Multipurpose solutions keep the weight down.





  • Same here. It was already a little bit concerning that I was relying on a smaller fork to get syncthing on Android. It was on my to do list to figure out options. Now it’s at the top of the list, and I’m not doing updates for the time being on Android. That’s almost the entirety of my reliance on syncthing - phone to PC sync. I don’t really need it that much for sync between PCs.



  • It’s just GRUB for boot on this PC, and that’s how I’m selecting Windows or Linux - in the GRUB menu. This might break if I did a Windows version upgrade, but so far feature updates are not a problem.

    I don’t think the placement of the partitions mattered much from a technical standpoint. I just liked the idea of a shared data partition at the end.

    But yeah, if you’re thinking about just jumping from the current setup to the 1TB SSD it would be pretty easy to use dd to clone old to new by doing a live boot from USB and having the new drive in an external enclosure (the command would be something like dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K status=progress - but double-check which drive id is used for each by comparing the names and sizes with lsblk first). That will copy the current disk contents to the first 256 GB of the new drive and leave the rest as free space. Swap in the new drive and test to be sure it boots to Windows. Then boot using Linux install media of your choice and install to the free space. If you’re not sure about the distro yet, you might want to have a separate /home to make it easier to try other flavors without wiping out your user files.

    If anything goes south you’ll have the original drive to swap in and get to Windows.

    Running MS Office in Linux will be a headache unless you have a very old full install version (not the current click-to-run tech). I would recommend giving Libre Office apps a try to replace Microsoft Office. I’ve found both Writer and Calc to have great compatibility with Microsoft features, and their UI is very intuitive. I only saw Excel workbooks have problems in Calc where very proprietary features were in use, like online stock quotes through the Microsoft back-end, and things like sparklines. Pretty complex formulas on a very large workbook were no problem. If either of you are using MS Office apps for work then definitely test compatibility before you make the jump. You can test that on Windows since Libre Office works on both Windows and Linux.


  • Agreed on other recommendations to test with a live environment via USB drive first.

    If you decide after that to proceed with a dual boot, I wouldn’t worry as much about Windows breaking it these days. I have a Windows 11 dual boot on a Dell laptop. It has had Debian, Fedora and now openSUSE Tumbleweed as my main OS for some time. I have gone through around 3 years of Windows updates and there haven’t been any problems with that.

    In my case I reinstalled Windows 11 first, reducing the size of the Windows system partition. I created a shared NTFS partition at the end of the drive and then installed Linux with / and /home partitions in the middle of the disk.

    You could check Disk Management in Windows to see how much you can shrink your system partition. If it gives you enough space that’s worth a try as a first step.